HTML - Just Starting Out - Helpful Books?

I'm attempting to teach myself code, HTML to be specific...

Ive' had a very good interest in coding for some time now but never had to oppitunity to actually sit down and think.

Does anyone have any recomendations of books ?
I'm currenently reading a e-bbok which takes me throught the steps but was published in 2004, Would that be any help what so ever ?

I have no specific use for coding, well none what so ever. Would HTML allow me to write a website for most web browsers ?

Any/All help is needed

Hi there, I'm looking for the best book on HTML out there, something like HTML 4.01 for dummies etc. Any suggestions?
Thanks guys,
Vic

Hello to you all.

I have a some technical "books" that i want to put on my website so that viewers will be able to read them online.

But I need some script to do this.

Can anybody help?

Regards

Kjartan Iversen

Is there any site from where i can download the web development books?

Hello guys,
First, I am glad to be a member of this forum.Can I have links to good HTML e-books? Books in pdf format shall be appreciable.

Thank you very much,
Regards,
Kishore

Hello guys,

i was wondering if any of you knows of :Some sort of book with html tests.
Like in math where there are lots of tests and problem books , is there any place where we can find/buy/download HTML test books?

Thanks in advance for your answers and since is almost the last day of the year i will rush in wishing you all HAPPY NEW YEAR!

All the books I've seen are targeted at either newbies, experienced, or expert users. All I want is a reference that shows all the tags and all the formatting options. For example:

Table
<table></table>
Table options
<table style class height width border colspacing padding>

Table row
<tr></tr>
Table row options
<tr ..... >

Table data
<td></td>
Table data options
<td ..... >

See? For every avaliable tag. I just need a reference, not code, nor how to's. Just a reference to the tags and parms they can take.

If you know of a book title that covers this, please indicate.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I've just recently started to teach myself XHTML and CSS and so far have been having a very enjoyable experience However I'm having problems with coming to grips with the various languages and software packages. I've just been using notepad so far and Photoshop for images.

Is it worth just sticking with note and photoshop that or would their be more benefit from using a package such as Dreamweaver etc?

Also I do intend to take it quite seriously maybe even as a job so which other languages would be most useful, Javascript or any others?

Thanks a lot to anyone that replies

Hello everyone,

I'm a Computer Science student mainly trained in mathematics and programming languages like C/C++ and Java; I wanted to branch out more into web design and decided to start with learning HTML.

So far, I've signed up for free hosting with Xtreemhost to give myself a sandbox to play with and familiarized myself with Classic FTP. I'm teaching myself using Sam's Teach Yourself HTML and CSS Eighth Edition.

My main frustration comes from my understanding that HTML 5 is the newest standard, but the book I use is using XHTML 1.1 as the standard for teaching. Will this really make much of a difference? Is there anywhere/anything I'm better off learning HTML from if I'm just going to be learning a bunch of deprecated stuff from XHTML 1.1?

It is also my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) that even though the standard has been issued for HTML 5, browsers are generally slow to add in support for it. So does it really matter at this point in time what standard I am using (HTML 4, XHTML 1.1, HTML 5, whatever) to learn? Would it be correct to say that I can use XHTML 1.1 if I really want to, but if I want to take advantage of all the pretty features of HTML 5, I need to abandon some of my apparently deprecated XHTML 1.1 ways first? On the other hand, if not all browsers are at this point in time supporting the HTML 5 features, why create a website that uses it if it's not going to work consistently across all browsers? As you can see, I'm a little confused =/

I'd appreciate if someone could shed some light on this for me and give me some guidance on... well... where to start learning, really; my Googling gives me conflicting information. My plan was to learn HTML, CSS, and Javascript, then learn how TCP/IP works, pick up some proficiency in Photoshop and Dreamweaver/Frontpage, then branch out into server-side technologies like PHP, ASP, etc... I already have some knowledge of SQL from my database design and programming class.

I did try learning from w3schools.com, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the material isn't quite comprehensive, which bugs me.

Hello all,

I am designing my first website and have taught myself the very basics of HTML/CSS but am at a bit of a loss where to start.

I want to start by creating the layout. Is this the usual way? I want about 5 pages and so would like to create the navigation bar down the left and drop down menus at the top which will then link to blank pages - all laid out, ready for text/photos etc to be added.

I realise that the layout should be created in CSS. Tables, I believe, are bad practice for layout design. What should I use instead?

I am grateful for anyone's help to get me off the starting blocks!

All the best

Phil

Here's my code in TextEdit:

Got that first bit of code from horus' tutorial on this site.


I saved it as a .html, then proceeded to open it in Google Chrome, Safari, and Internet explorer; all the same result. Why does it spit out this?



Should i not be using textedit? I've been looking into the CSS, what about those?

I'd like my MP3 file to play continuously, without starting over each time a new page is opened. Is there code for telling the mp3 to not start over when opening a new page?

Here's the code I use now:
<EMBED SRC="Jaded.mp3" AUTOSTART="true" HIDDEN="false" LOOP="true">

Thank you for your assistance!

So I designed some websites in Photoshop and I'm still learning it, but recently I saw many people talking about Fireworks and how it is a way better way of producing web design work than Photoshop.
They say FW is a more efficient tool, as it was strictly built to create web design. That in terms of web design, it can do everything Photoshop can, but in a more simple way.
Is it true?
If it is, I think learning Fireworks is a good idea.
But..there are soooo many Photoshop tutorials and so much less Fireworks tutorials. And that's my second question: Can I apply Photoshop web design tutorials to Fireworks? I mean, can I watch/ read Photoshop tutorials and figure out how to do the exact same things in Fireworks?